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I joined the service and not. Nine hundred
sixty nine. Did my basic training and

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everything at Fort Gordon Georgia from there
I volunteered I went to Vietnam spent

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two tours there. Extended while I was there
came back and went back again and then

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I was from there they sent me to Germany
and I spent about ten years in Germany and

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from there they sent me
back stateside I did

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a my short or I didn't Turkey
I spent six months in Turkey

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then I came back to the states in Fort
Sill Oklahoma No I'm sorry went to

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Washington I was with

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a mechanized infantry unit I was
communication saw was with all the different

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services in the army and mechanized and
they switch us down the fort ord and then

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our unit there got selected the be part
of the multinational force so we went to

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the Sinai for the peace treaty between
Israel and Egypt and we're stationed there

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for about six to eight months came
back stateside to Oklahoma air

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to the artillery unit from there and went
to. Four in California and there we were

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. There is where I spent the rest of my
time which like the last three years and.

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In towards the end of my twenty years in
the service I had back surgery there and.

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End up getting not

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a medical discharge but they gave me
one of my retirement twenty years of

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retirement I was on the collective
convalescent leave or whatever throughout the

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rest of my six months I had left in the
service and then I retired from there and

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moved here to Lakeland Florida and I've
been here since. I think my biggest one of

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the when I was that the Fort Ord
California when our unit got

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selected to go to. To Sinai I
thought that was quite interesting

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and because I. I guess I was in communications
so I was in charge of the floor

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shows and stuff like that so
I'd go to Israel to pick up

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a floor show and bring them back to the to
the peninsula and then another comic go

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to Egypt I've seen the fair all been
through the pyramids I've taken

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a trip down the Nile and I've I got to see

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a lot of things I'll never see again and
and the other interesting tour of course

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was Tarpey completely different you know
all Moslem all the face all the ladies had

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their Scaurus over their
face and that was up in

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a mountain top where I could see Mount are
wrecked which was were supposedly Noah's

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Ark was followed up on top of this mountain
and we're way up snowed nine ten months

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out of the year but we had. We had
the munitions and the Turkish had

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the weapons the fire the munitions and I
was passed since I was the communications

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I was part of the they didn't move them in
nations out of Turkey out of out of the

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spot I was that and I was part set up the
communications to move these weapons

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not weapons but the the ammo that goes in
the weapons out of the country and we had

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to keep communications with the bird all
the way throughout the flight and I think

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I. Think the military in.

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Italy took over the communications until
they got back stateside or wherever they I

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don't even know where they went but I'm not
sure of this is all still declassified

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or not because I was pretty well classified
thing that I was on there and it was

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got to see a lot there and. Every time
we were one off the detachment in

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a vehicle like Way to go down the air field
to pick up our our food or whatever and

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drive it back up we always have to hit
there was always at the gate there was an

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armed van full of Turkish army
that would follow us into town and

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follow us back and basically what that was
if we ran into troubles because we were

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in the mountains and there was

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a lot of Turkish people out there matter
of fact at the bottom of my hill was

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a big stadium outside stadium and
that's where they would hold the big

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trials for all their

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a better word I guess just outlaws they
find out doing things doing that and they

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held and held their trial
out there everybody

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a one time but it was basically
that band was basically

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a. Little bit up the back. Doors
to in the machine gun crew

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and so that was tight security there but
I enjoyed going to places like that I

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rather be in the places like stateside
the stateside as all states I do feel is

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just the P.T.

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. Cleaning up you know with the ecology
call that the picking up cigarette

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butts in this that and that and that's you
know we did our training of course and

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the training was good but. It was exciting
I did I did just over twenty years but I

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time I finally retired and I enjoyed my
service or it was my own entire career or

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really did and ever see these places
again in my life and during that time of

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course I got to go to when I was in Vietnam
one time my first Toral went to law

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Japan spent

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a couple of weeks in Japan and then I went
to all Australia the second to war it's

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been

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a couple of weeks there I'll just never see
the country again like this again I'll

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never see it again.